Databases

Databases

Use our subscription databases to find citations and full text articles. To get started, just click on the database that you would like to search. If you're outside the library, you may need to enter your library card number and PIN in order to access the database.

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
Listen to over 50,000 recordings from America's past; songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys; songs of Civil Rights, Prohibition, the Civil War, and more.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
A comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings offered in streaming format. The Classical Music Library also includes anthology playlists linked to the major music history and appreciation textbooks.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
This resource includes contemporary and traditional world music including tracks of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

ChildrenHealth & FitnessMedicalAdultsChildren
KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

Biography & Autobiography ChildrenLiteratureAdultsTeens
This extensive compilation of literary commentary represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras, and genres. Covers Children’s, Classical, Contemporary, Drama, Poetry, Shakespearean, and more.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

Newspapers, Magazines, & JournalsAdultsChildrenSeniors
Enjoy an unlimited number of free 72-hour passes to NYTimes.com, including historical coverage and international Spanish and Chinese editions. Crossword access is not included. Registration at NYTimes.com is required.
Available To: Free Library card holders

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
Find a wide range of popular music from around the world, including pop music, alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and more.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

ChildrenLiteracyAdultsChildrenRead by 4th
Sign up for this research-based text messaging program for parents of children between the ages of birth to five and receive fun facts and easy tips to boost your child’s learning delivered right to your phone.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online

MusicAdultsTeensChildrenDigital Media
With an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of streaming music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, users can listen to performances by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and many more.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

ChildrenGeneral ResearchChildren
Read the book and watch the movie! TrueFlix provides a selection of digital books from Scholastic Publishing and pairs each with a film for a fun, new way to learn!
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

ChildrenebooksLiteracyChildrenDigital Media
TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love.
Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

This project is made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through Library Access Funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.